Tukwila Meadery Offers Viking Vibes and an Ancient Beverage

SEATTLE TIMES - “[King Hrothgar] handed down orders for men to work on a great mead-hall, meant to be a wonder of the world forever.” — “Beowulf,” translation by Seamus Heaney

IN THE LONG, COLD Scandinavian winter nights of yore, the mead hall was a beacon of warmth and light, the radiant call of its hearth fires drawing adventurers through its carved doorways. Today, in a nondescript Tukwila office park, a mead-maker named Jon Oppegaard has created a tasting room that does the same.

The place is hard to find unless you know what you’re looking for, tucked away among a maze of anonymous office buildings. You’d never know that behind those dull walls is a fairy-tale tavern, hidden in plain sight like something out of a Harry Potter book. When you step through the meadery’s back door (its main entrance), you enter a colorful, inviting facsimile of a Viking mead hall. 

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